We were the first to call it the Schumer Shutdown in 2025, and now get ready for the 2026 encore.

The odds of a government shutdown soared over the weekend when Chuck Schumer announced he would filibuster the funding package he had personally negotiated – unless Republicans cave to demands to defund ICE.

Ironically, a shutdown would not shut down ICE at all, because the agency was already well-funded in the Big Beautiful Bill – but it would mean military personnel and TSA agents would go unpaid again, with the same predictable results as the last shutdown.

Schumer claimed he learned his lesson last time, but here we are days away from a shutdown and he’s once again captive to his radical activist base. He is choosing to engage in the politics of symbolism, rather than fulfill the most basic responsibility of governing.

This is all part of the left’s master strategy of causing havoc and mayhem all over the country. Burn down the village.

We can get through this, despite the Left’s second grade temper tantrum. Even with the six-week first Schumer shutdown, the economy sprinted to a 5%+ fourth quarter growth rate.